SMTP Integration¶

userharbor-smtp provides SMTPEmailSender, an EmailSender implementation that sends verification and password-reset messages through SMTP.

Repository:

https://github.com/userharbor/userharbor-smtp

Installation¶

pip install userharbor-smtp

You can also install it through the core package extra:

pip install "userharbor[smtp]"

Basic usage¶

from userharbor_smtp import SMTPEmailSender

email_sender = SMTPEmailSender(
    host="smtp.example.com",
    port=587,
    username="smtp-user",
    password="smtp-password",
    from_email="noreply@example.com",
    from_name="UserHarbor",
)

Pass the sender to UserHarbor as its email_sender. UserHarbor calls it when it needs to send:

• email verification messages,
• password reset messages.

Configuration¶

SMTPEmailSender(
    host="smtp.example.com",
    from_email="noreply@example.com",
    port=587,
    username=None,
    password=None,
    from_name=None,
    template_dir=None,
    verification_subject="Verify your email",
    password_reset_subject="Reset your password",
    use_starttls=True,
    use_ssl=False,
    timeout=10,
)

Use use_starttls=True for the common SMTP submission flow on port 587. Use use_ssl=True for implicit TLS, commonly on port 465. When use_ssl=True, STARTTLS is not started separately.

If both username and password are provided, the sender authenticates before sending the message.

Templates¶

By default, the package uses bundled HTML templates:

• verification.html,
• password_reset.html.

To use custom templates, pass a directory containing files with the same names:

email_sender = SMTPEmailSender(
    host="smtp.example.com",
    port=587,
    username="smtp-user",
    password="smtp-password",
    from_email="noreply@example.com",
    template_dir="templates/emails",
)

Each template receives:

• username,
• email,
• token.

Example templates/emails/verification.html:

<p>Hello {{ username }},</p>
<p>Use this token to verify {{ email }}:</p>
<p><strong>{{ token }}</strong></p>

Example templates/emails/password_reset.html:

<p>Hello {{ username }},</p>
<p>Use this token to reset your password:</p>
<p><strong>{{ token }}</strong></p>